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´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24 streamed live on ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website permanently
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´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24 is, from today, streamed live on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website permanently.
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Viewers are now able to watch the latest breaking news streamed online to their computers by simply clicking on the "Watch Live" links found on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website front page, as well as in the body of relevant website stories.
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Head of ´óÏó´«Ã½ News Interactive, Pete Clifton says: "Streaming ´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24 enhances our commitment to providing news on-demand, allowing people to consume news in the time and format of their choosing whether it's live video streaming, reading an online text story or via Ceefax."
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For the past few years the continuous news channel has been streamed through the website in order to cover major news stories but now ´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24 will always be available to UK audiences to watch live online.
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Kevin Bakhurst, Controller, ´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24, says: "I'm really pleased that the UK's most-watched news channel is now available cross-platform, on tv, online and mobile phones – 24 hours a day."
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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website already offers a wide range of audio visual services online including the latest news packages, headlines summaries as well as current affairs programmes such as Panorama and Newsnight.
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The audio-visual services reach an average of 250,000 unique users per month, with top stories reaching nearly a million unique users.
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Adrian Van Klaveren, Controller of Production and Deputy Director of News, says: "Streaming the channel permanently is a key part of plans to make sure licence fee payers can access ´óÏó´«Ã½ content in the most convenient ways for them."
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In addition, ´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24 is now streamed live to viewers with access to the 3G mobile phone network.
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Notes to Editors
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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website regularly tops one billion page impressions per month.
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At the Webby Awards recently, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website won both awards in the News catagory – the Webby and the People's Choice award – for the third year running.
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´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24 has an average weekly reach of 6.14 million viewers year-to-date, compared to an average weekly reach of 3.98 million viewers for Sky News.
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´óÏó´«Ã½ News 24's share year to date is 0.7%, with Sky News' share at 0.4%.
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